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Uneducated guess - many more than were available from the
previous turn of the century. We know we have many more cameras and
photographers than in 1900. Many of the photos now being taken will be
saved on CDs or DVDs or whatever supersedes those media. Of course,
many will be printed also which becomes a different thing, I guess.
I imagine institutions like the Smithsonian and the LOC are very much aware of
the problems with digital images and have plans in place to archive those.
The biggest problem may be one of identification. You know when you do an
image search on Google you find many images that have been tagged with your
search terms but really are not what you requested. That sort of thing may
be a huge problem.
Don > I think what Greg said will be true -
the ether will be fulfilled, packed up, overwhelmed.
The question is - does anyone ever
care to see this stuff. I mean - even if they knew where this stuff
is.
Today already it is quite boring
and fatiguing to tolerate passively the amount of pictures, words, noise
... and I am living in the countryside!!!
I do not listen to my music CD-s, I
do not browse picture galleries (even good ones), if I turn on the radio I soon
realize there isn't any split second of silence...
If I'm tired, I will sit onto the sofa and watch TV
. . . with my eyes closed.
If I live so long (2050 -
2060) I will hate both the archiving media and the archived
stuff.
Today I was walking with my dog down
to the field and reedbeds behind my house and the village when it was
almost getting dark - the very last photons wandering
around.
Suddenly there was a hole in the clouds and the
near-to-full moon was pouring over the still-blue-sky some liquid platinum
and together with the tint-black tree silhouettes it drove my
roof away. I was really thankful, almost saying a blessing I had
no camera with me.
Now I think if I live up to 2060 I hope there will
be still possible to walk to the reedbeds and enjoy the full moon over the
colourful darkness.
And neither camera needed, nor image
search.
Peeter
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